Just when you think things can't get any worse...

[AAAMUSEMENTS]

...a letter from the PRS drops through the door.

They want me to pay them money so that I can listen to Radio 2 in the office in my house?

Ridiculous.

X(

 

[NozSpark]

Don't so many people have to be able to hear the radio over a certain period before PRS get involved???

Anyway, I didn't think you had a radio in the office, don't you listen to through house on through the door????

 

[NozSpark]

oh jeez,,

doing this with phone while eating lunch...

Should have said "don't you listen to the house one through the door??"

 

[AAAMUSEMENTS]

oh jeez,,doing this with phone while eating lunch...

Should have said "don't you listen to the house one through the door??"

Hehe I knew what you meant, after reading it again!

Yeah absolutely, there is no way I am paying them anything for listening to the radio in my own house. But as I have no employees or business visitors who come into the office (there isn't room!) I doubt it will apply.

Common sense should dictate that it doesn't...

 

[Evans Electric]

My wholesalers have to pay every year, they have radio on in the back but it must'nt be heard by customers, apparently.

Deke

 

[Evans Electric]

...a letter from the PRS drops through the door.They want me to pay them money so that I can listen to Radio 2 in the office in my house?

Ridiculous.

X(

How do they know you listen to Radio 2 ?

Talk about Big Brother poking his nose into people's business.

 

[paul b b]

How do they know you listen to Radio 2 ?Talk about Big Brother poking his nose into people's business.

they can tell from his age! another year or 2 and it will be radio 4, the next step is clasic fm from there... death i'm afraid

 

[Evans Electric]

OMG !!!! I've listened to R4 since I was a kid, listening to the GoonShow with my elder brother, also R7 on Digital Radio , R5 in the mornings and a smittering of local radio (WM) all speech based so will the PRS leave me alone ?

Sick and tired of listening to teeny bopper pop music TBH

Oh Death , where is thy sting, let it be swift and powerful !!!

 

[paul b b]

yeah i must admit i listen to r4 (i'm 32) or 5live though i must say thr r4 comedy is utter tosh at the moment so i tune in to dads army on 7 now.

and whislt im talking about it, its time 7 put paul temple back on!

oh and would that be pope?

 

[Evans Electric]

I enjoyed Paul Temple too . And the quote ? , I thought it might be Shakespeare but was just trying to be clever really.

Also enjoyed Sherlock Holmes on R7 , it works well on radio.

 

[green-hornet]

Just wait for the inclusion for travelling in your works van, a nice anual fee payable to PRS for the blinking radio?

For all the MI5 operatives who monitor disent in online forums a messasge

Yes I hate buraucracy and easy tageting of hard working tradesmen.

 

[Evans Electric]

For all MI5 Operatives monitoring tonight :- The One Eyed Camel on the Bull Ring roof winks knowingly as the Giant Norwegian Blue wobbles alarmingly on its stilts and announces that "In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king, M'lud"

They are watching me all the time since my ancient thread warning about the government leaving a giant pod by you as you sleep, it becomes a clone of you as you never wake up.

I know this because I am from the future, I have travelled back in time in an old Escort van to save the world but no one will listen. B-)B-)

Neddy Seagoon 1V

 

[Pyro]

...a letter from the PRS drops through the door.They want me to pay them money so that I can listen to Radio 2 in the office in my house?

Ridiculous.

X(

I had something similar happen a couple of years ago......

I have a small business premises and got a PRS letter. Being a one-man-band with very few visitors other than the odd sales rep, I thought it a bl@@&y cheek, so I phoned PRS to find out the story: I was told that as I was operating from a business premises that was not my home I would have to pay a fee to listen to music. Had I been operating the business from home it would be a different rule - no PRS fee for a home based business.

As this was a couple of years ago, the rules may have changed (which would not be a surprise).

The PRS conversation started out with them saying something like "Is that Mr .....?"

Me: "Yes"

"This is the PRS..... Do you know about the PRS?"

Me: "Yes. You're the music police, aren't you?"

Accurate, but not the most tactful of answers!

Towards the end, the conversation went along the lines of:

"So having already paid for CDs when I bought them, are you now telling me that I am effectively to be taxed to listen to my own CDs in my own office when I am alone over 90% of the time that I am in the office?"

"Well..... er,"

"Sounds like a 'Yes' to me, in which case the damn CDs can go home where I can listen to them for free. Goodbye".

A truly great way to lose support and alienate people. Oxygen thieves. Jobsworth prats.X( X( headbang

Hey there Mr Admin, I think the headbang is cool...... have you any ideas for a "blood boiling" smiley? Or would that be a scowley?

 

[AAAMUSEMENTS]

I had something similar happen a couple of years ago......I have a small business premises and got a PRS letter. Being a one-man-band with very few visitors other than the odd sales rep, I thought it a bl@@&y cheek, so I phoned PRS to find out the story: I was told that as I was operating from a business premises that was not my home I would have to pay a fee to listen to music. Had I been operating the business from home it would be a different rule - no PRS fee for a home based business.

Thanks for that, hopefully the rules are still the same - in which case they can p off!

I love the way this became a thread about how we are all miserable old sods who like listening to proper music and comedy...

(I am only 30 by the way - but I still wouldn't listen to Radio "R&B" One or some horrific commercial station with intelligence insulting adverts every 3 minutes.)

 

[Evans Electric]

" The Music Police" I love it !!!

 

[M107]

If you go to any Neweys you wont (or shouldn't) hear a radio or see the tv (Reading branch had one) because.............. last year they got a fine from the music police, quite a large fine by all accounts.

 

[Evans Electric]

Would this apply to the Prairie Hat who drives up our road with his so called music thumping so loud our front window vibrates as he passes and the bass notes seem to penetrate your chest cavity , create irregular heart rhythms and burst your eyeballs.

 

[Apache]

Would this apply to the Prairie Hat who drives up our road with his so called music thumping so loud our front window vibrates as he passes and the bass notes seem to penetrate your chest cavity , create irregular heart rhythms and burst your eyeballs.

You can take comfort that they will be deaf by 30

 

[batty]

You can take comfort that they will be deaf by 30

Pardon.

:coat